Former Delray private eye, 88, ready to release her newest book

DELRAY BEACH – Writer Virginia Snyder, 88, has kicked off her publicity tour for a new tell-all book titled "And Justice for All: The Improbable Story of Virginia Snyder, Investigative Reporter and Private Investigator."

Snyder recently stopped by Boynton Beach radio station WXEL 90.7 FM to tape interviews for an upcoming feature on the station's " Florida Forum" show with host Ann Bocock. That show airs at 11 a.m. Sundays and re-airs at 7 p.m. Mondays.

Snyder answered questions about her abusive father while she was growing up, how she left Virginia and married and moved to Florida to pursue a newspaper reporting job and a college degree.

Then she worked as the only female private investigator in Florida, helping to free people who had been wrongly convicted of crimes and jailed due to mistakes by law enforcement here in South Florida.

"She's 88 … You know the saying you can't judge a book by its cover? That's Virginia Snyder," Bocock said.

"I went ahead with the skunk approach," Snyder said in describing her work. "If I made enough [of a] stink I could get somewhere."